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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by LeoPanthera »

eahm wrote: post #76

Wtf, simply not true: Brave: chrome://flags/#brave-extensions-manifest-v2 > brave://settings/extensions/v2 > Enable uBlock Origin (Brave-hosted, even better). Helium comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed. Edge even still has it https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-ori... And I'm sure others ...I personally only use/test Brave, Brave Origin, Helium and Firefox.

The title says "major browser", which none of those are.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by Madmallard »

Do people not remember Firefox changing their terms of service last year and allowing them to sell your data to third parties? I don't get it did people forget?

I switched over to LibreWolf and other browsers like that then and never looked back.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by matheusmoreira »

cma wrote: post #77
matheusmoreira wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good. It's just that uBlock Origin is so insanely useful, important and trusted, it should get full access to the entire browser regardless. Honestly, it should…

The Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer let users search Google directly from any webpage, block pop-up ads, autofill web forms, and highlight search terms. It also displayed PageRank metrics, translated foreign languages, checked spelling, and managed web bookmarks.

Imagine the massive amount of data they must have harvested through it.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by matheusmoreira »

radley wrote: post #60
matheusmoreira wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good. It's just that uBlock Origin is so insanely useful, important and trusted, it should get full access to the entire browser regardless. Honestly, it should…

> I want my browser to prevent random extensions... Why are you installing random extensions?

I'm not. The only extension I trust enough to install is uBlock Origin.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by downrightmike »

fragmede wrote: post #54
AstralSerenity wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Theil was an angel investor in Brave. That alone is all the reason privacy-minded users need to avoid it.

Because Peter Thiel gave them some money, there's some secret backdoor code that's sending all your information to Palantir?

That is their MO

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by downrightmike »

Madmallard wrote: post #79
ycombinatrix wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do Yes, that's why google moved to manifest v3 and extensions can't do as much.

Can't they just modify the browser itself with an injection into the executable surely there is a way around that

Operative work there is 'just'
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